Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (715 mails)

[Patrick Shanahan <paka@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

* Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@xxxxxxxxxxxx> [03-21-12 18:33]:
> I would not recommend doing this kind of debugging with the Factory kernels.
> Instead you should download the mainline git kernel by using
>
> sudo zypper in git
> git clone git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git
>
> This will get you the full source for the kernel. Next you cd to linux, and
> do the following:
>
> git bisect start
> git bisect bad v3.3
> git bisect good v3.2
>
> This will generate a new trial kernel roughly half way between the two
> versions. You build, install and test that one. Once you know if it is good
> or bad,
>
> git bisect xxxx  (either good/bad).
>
> If you know that v3.3-rc6 was bad, then use that instead of v3.3.

I will dig into this when I have sit-down-time.  You may need to answer
*many* questions as I suspect you have exceeded my working-knowledge-level
 *:^)

tks,
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